IsaacShep wrote...
What is this retconing you're talking about? In order for something to be retconned it would have to be established first. Furthermore, retcons CONTRADICT and REWRITE previously established facts. Kaidan being bisexual does not contradict, nor rewrites ANYTHING we know so far about him.
Any given LI for Shepard, including Kaidan, goes through a romantic arc where the character grows closer to Shepard over time, such that, in spite of some obstacles that exist between them, the character expresses attraction towards Shepard and the hope that things will progress further. Sometimes Shepard does not reciprocate and the obstacle could not be overcome, but the character tries anyway and then respects Shepard's choice. One would surmise that possible uncertainty as to whether a Shepard of the same sex as the LI in question would reciprocate said character's affections would be an obstacle to be overcome like any other (e.g. fraternisation, interspecies awkwardness, painful loss of a past love, personal insecurities, etc.), leading to the question: if the LI had feelings like those for Shepard, why didn't he or she voice them? The fact that she or he did not isn't proof that said character is not bisexual. However, in the absence of other evidence, it would tend to incline one towards that conclusion.
I'm not saying this in some misguided attempt to upset you, nor do I feel I have an ironclad case (I neither need or want one, since the matter in question is not supremely important to me). I'm just pointing out that if any given one of the existing non-asari LIs already had strong romantic feelings for a Shepard of the same sex, I expect that they would have revealed their feelings at the same time that they are known to do so in the case of opposite-sex Shepard. Whether heterosexual or bisexual (I leave out homosexual since it's not an option for existing ME1 and 2 LIs), they are, after all, the same character with the same personalty. (DA2 shows how well a LI's personality can come across regardless of sexual orientation, doesn't it?) So why wouldn't they have spoken out about their feelings? To imagine that they wouldn't does actually retcon certain things about them, for instance their sense of what's important as they journey towards a life-or-death battle with titanic forces bent on the destruction of galactic civilization.
But, as I have said before, we can eliminate the sense of
contradiction in "retcon" if we limit it to one or two characters and give reasons why they would hesitate before a Shepard of the same sex or somehow not fully realise feelings that, in the case of opposite-sex Shepard, were very clear. It's just that finding reasons for all of them to do this that would not, in my opinion, serve the game's overall sense of consistency very well. Consider: if one is bringing a LI forward from ME1 or 2, one has already made one's choice and isn't beseiged by four characters at once. By contrast, the homosexual or bisexual Shepard will not have been able to commit to any (non-asari) lovers of the same sex during past games, and so if we want him or her to be able to choose among them all then all these characters will have to go through a replicated character development arc where each becomes able to voice feelings to Shepard that he or she was unable to voice before. Having four characters in a row do that, I fear, would make the last one or two of these farcical instead of touching. Again, though, that's just my taste when it comes to this matter. Perhaps no one else here would feel the same way (though I did note someone agreeing with me on this earlier).
Of course, if we look for a way to surmount this difficulty, we come up with the idea of making
Shepard be the one who makes romantic advances. In this case, there will be no sense of comical, increasingly undramatic replication of character arc, since Shepard can just choose the person he or she cares for and ask them about it; no other LI need be approached. That being the case, there's still something to be said of the romantically attractive idea of being pursued rather than the pursuer (some people prefer one, some the other), so perhaps one S/S LI could be designated as the one who makes the move on Shepard, but the others won't. This dynamic can even be seen in existing romances, where Garrus will not try to initiate things with Shepard; she has to take the step of asking him. Indeed, if Garrus was written as bi in ME3, I think this would still be the case; I actually find Jacob or Kaidan more likely candidates for approaching Shep, if we were going to have one of them do it. I suppose all this is academic, since we've already heard that not all ME1 and ME2 LIs will be shown as bi in ME3, but it's still interesting to ask how it might best be done if the devs were to decide to do it.
Modifié par Estelindis, 28 juin 2011 - 12:55 .
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. BUT if it were a harmless candlight date on tuchunka (LOL) I would go for the dude without question, hopefully wrex, he's awesome.
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